What does Ezekiel 28:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"By thy greatb wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:"
Verse Ezekiel 28:5. _BY THY GREAT WISDOM_] He attributed every thing to himself; he did not acknowledge a Divine providence. As he got all by himself, so he believed he could keep all by himself, and...
The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is...
Ezekiel 28:1. The prince of Tyrus, or, as he is also called, the king, was, according to the Jewish historian Josephus, Ithobalus, known in the Phoenician annals as Ithobaal II. He was the consummatio...
EZEKIEL 28. TYRE'S FALL FROM HEAVEN. In a remarkable passage, Ezekiel now conceives the pride of Tyre as incarnate in her king. The detail is often obscure and difficult, reminiscent of a mythological...
III. THE PRINCE OF TYRE 28:1-19 The three Chapter s dealing with Tyre conclude with a vigorous attack against the prince of Tyre for his claims to deity. This attack is not to be interpreted personal...
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: BY THY GREAT WISDOM ... HAST THOU INCREASED THY RICHES, AND THINE HEART...
THE KING OF TYRE The overweening pride of the prince of Tyre, which has led him to claim to be a god, is rebuked, and his destruction by strangers is foretold (Ezekiel 28:1). He is compared to an inm...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 28 AGAINST THE RULER OF TYRE – EZEKIEL 28:1-10 V1 The *LORD...
בְּ רֹ֧ב חָכְמָתְךָ֛ בִּ רְכֻלָּתְךָ֖ הִרְבִּ֣יתָ חֵילֶ֑ךָ וַ יִּגְבַּ֥הּ לְבָבְךָ֖ בְּ חֵילֶֽךָ׃ ס...
TYRE (CONTINUED): SIDON Ezekiel 27:1; Ezekiel 28:1 THE remaining oracles on Tyre (Chapter s 27, Ezekiel 28:1) are somewhat different both in subject and mode of treatment from the chapter we have jus...
The prophecy concerning Tyre ended with a message to its prince and a lamentation for its king. A distinction must be drawn between these two. Most evidently the prince was the then reigning king, Ith...
We have here the continuation of the sad overthrow of Tyre. The Prince of Tyre is particularly noticed, and his daring impiety pointed at. There are no leading characters to discover to whom, or to wh...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 26, 27, AND 28. Although in a certain sense upon Israel's territory, Tyre has another character, and is the subject of a separate prophecy (chaps. 26-28), be...
BY THY GREAT WISDOM AND BY THY TRAFFIC,.... Or, "by thy great wisdom in thy traffic" i; through great skill in trade and commerce: HAST THOU INCREASED THY RICHES; to a very great degree, a prodigious...
By thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: Ver. 5. _Thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches._] Like as the hi...
_Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel_ In thy own conceit. The fame of Daniel's wisdom was quickly spread over Chaldea, upon his being advanced to several posts of honour and dignity by Nebuchadnezzar....
GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON THE PRINCE OF TYRE...
BY THY GREAT WISDOM: _ Heb._ by the greatness of thy wisdom...
1-19 Ethbaal, or Ithobal, was the prince or king of Tyre; and being lifted up with excessive pride, he claimed Divine honours. Pride is peculiarly the sin of our fallen nature. Nor can any wisdom, exc...
THY GREAT WISDOM: here the eminent degree of this prince's wisdom is owned. AND BY THY TRAFFIC: and might as well be spared, for as it is not in the Hebrew, so it rather obscures than clears the text;...
Ezekiel 28:5 great H7230 wisdom H2451 trade H7404 increased H7235 (H8689) riches H2428 heart H3824 up H1361 (H8799) riches H2428) thy great wisdom - Heb. the greatness of thy wisdom, Proverbs 26:12;...
ORACLE AGAINST THE NAGID OF TYRE. Here the King of Tyre is called ‘the Nagid of Tyre'. Nagid (prince) is a title elsewhere restricted in the singular to princes and leaders of Israel. (Some see Danie...
CONTENTS: Rebuke of the King of Tyre, and the fate of Satan who inspired him. Zidon's judgment and Israel's re-gathering. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Daniel, King of Tyre, Satan. CONCLUSION: Those who...
Ezekiel 28:2. _Say unto the prince of Tyrus because thou hast said, I am_ אל El _God,_ or the strong and mighty One. It is plain from the names of the princes that they bore titles of deity. Ezekiel...
_Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus._ THE CAUSES OF NATIONAL DECADENCE Who has not sometimes, standing on Brooklyn Bridge, and looking off on the forests of masts, or upon the fleets sailing ba...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 28:1 Although in lament form, this new oracle against Tyre has the familiar pattern of indictment (vv. Ezekiel 28:2) and outcome (vv. Ezekiel 28:7). Pride is at the center of t...
PROPHETICAL DIRGE ON THE KING OF TYRE, AS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SPIRIT OF CARNAL PRIDE AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF THE WHOLE STATE. THE FALL OF ZIDON, THE MOTHER-CITY. THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL IN CONTRAS...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 28:1 From the city the prophet passes to its ruler, who concentrated in himself whatever was most arrogant and boastful in the temper of his people. He is described here as a" prin...
Now as we get into chapter 28, the attention now is directed against the king of Tyre. Chapter 26 against the city of Tyre, chapter 27 against the merchandising of Tyre, chapter 28 now is directed aga...
1 Timothy 6:17; 2 Chronicles 25:19; 2 Chronicles 32:23; Daniel 4:30; Daniel 4:37; Deuteronomy 6:11; Deuteronomy 6:12; Deuteronomy 8:13; Deuteronomy 8:14;...